Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
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Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
Three times in a year, all your males shall appear before the face of the Lord Yahweh, God of Israel.
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Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Thrise in a yere shall all your men children appeare before the Lord Iehouah God of Israel.
Three times in a year all thy males shall appear in the sight of the Almighty Lord the God of Israel.
`Three times in a year do all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, God of Israel;
Three times in a year all your males appear before the Lord YHWH, God of Israel;
Three times a year all your men must appear before Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Three times in a year, all your males shall appear before the face of the Lord Yahweh, God of Israel.
Thrice in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel.
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Thrice in the year shall all your male children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
Three times every year all your males must appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord, the God of Israel.
Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is זְכ֣וּרְךָ֔ male H2138 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
זְכ֣וּרְךָ֔ male H2138 occurs in 4 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 18 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 13 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Exodus 34:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
שָׁלֹ֥שׁ פְּעָמִ֖ים בַּשָּׁנָ֑ה יֵרָאֶה֙ כָּל זְכ֣וּרְךָ֔ אֶת פְּנֵ֛י הָֽאָדֹ֥ן יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
Three times in the year all your males shall appear before the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel.
World English Bible · Public Domain
τρεῖς καιρός ὁ ἐνιαυτός ὁράω πᾶς ἀρσενικός σύ ἐνώπιον κύριος ὁ θεός ἰσραήλ
Three times in the year shall every male of yours appear before the Lord the God of Israel.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
תְּלַת זִמְנִין בְּשַׁתָּא יִתְחֲזוּן כָּל דְכוּרָךְ קֳדָם רִבּוֹן עָלְמָא יְיָ אֱלָהָא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
תְּלַת זִמְנִין בְּשַׁתָּא יִתְחַמְיוּן כָּל דְּכוּרָךְ קֳדָם רִבּוֹן עָלְמַיָא יְיָ אֱלָהָא דְיִשְרָאֵל
Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Master of the world, the Lord God of Israel.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 12 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is zâkûwr (“male”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 34:23 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Joseph Benson's Commentary
Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale Open Resources
Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.